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I HAVE taken some of my best tips for living from others, and though I'd like to count Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Buddha and Demosthenes (''He who confers a favor should at once forget it'') among them, the truth lies closer to role models like...

June 15, 2003, Sunday

''The Ethel Merman Disco Album'' (Fynsworth Alley). Some of the greatest new musical genres were created by combining two existing musical forms. but Merman's fusion of the Broadway show tune and the disco party anthem does not rank among such...

December 6, 2002, Friday

To the Editor: Why is Ethel Merman semi-forgotten today [''Ethel Merman: The Clarion Call'' by Barry Singer, Jan. 6]? Same reason Al Jolson and Sophie Tucker and Gertrude Lawrence and other great stars are: there was no mass media to hype...